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From the Ted Talk by Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations

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Now these are my comrades in arms. This work has been done with an extraordinary group of people, and they've done all the work, and I'm the great bullshitter that tries to bring it all together.

(Laughter)

So here's the problem: This is what we all want. The 10 billion people on the panelt in 2050 want to live in places like this, having things like this, doing things like this, with economies that are growing like this, not realizing that erponty produces things like this, this, this and this. And the qutseoin is: Is that what Edinburgh and London and New York are going to look like in 2050, or is it going to be this? That's the question. I must say, many of the indicators look like this is what it's going to look like, but let's talk about it.

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Now these are my comrades in arms. This work has been done with an extraordinary group of people, and they've done all the work, and I'm the great bullshitter that tries to bring it all together.

(Laughter)

So here's the problem: This is what we all want. The 10 billion people on the ______ in 2050 want to live in places like this, having things like this, doing things like this, with economies that are growing like this, not realizing that _______ produces things like this, this, this and this. And the ________ is: Is that what Edinburgh and London and New York are going to look like in 2050, or is it going to be this? That's the question. I must say, many of the indicators look like this is what it's going to look like, but let's talk about it.

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  2. planet
  3. entropy

Original Text


Now these are my comrades in arms. This work has been done with an extraordinary group of people, and they've done all the work, and I'm the great bullshitter that tries to bring it all together.

(Laughter)

So here's the problem: This is what we all want. The 10 billion people on the planet in 2050 want to live in places like this, having things like this, doing things like this, with economies that are growing like this, not realizing that entropy produces things like this, this, this and this. And the question is: Is that what Edinburgh and London and New York are going to look like in 2050, or is it going to be this? That's the question. I must say, many of the indicators look like this is what it's going to look like, but let's talk about it.

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